Editing Art Nouveau (section)

===''Jūgendstils'' (Art Nouveau in Riga)===
{{Main|Art Nouveau architecture in Riga}}
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File:Riga Elizabetes ielā 10b,.JPG|Façade of house at Elizabetes ielā, 10b, by [[Mikhail Eisenstein]] (1903)
File:Shell (45628779401).jpg|Stairway in Pēkšēns House by [[Konstantīns Pēkšēns]] (1903), now hosting Riga Jūgendstils museum
File:Riga, Vilandes 10 (3) 2014-03-13.jpg|National Romantic decoration on a house built by Pēkšēns (1908)
File:Ministry of Education and Science of Latvia.jpg|Ministry of Education, built by Edgar Friesendorf (1911)
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[[Riga]], the present-day capital of [[Latvia]], was at the time one of the major cities of the [[Russian Empire]]. [[Art Nouveau architecture in Riga]] nevertheless developed according to its own dynamics, and the style became overwhelmingly popular in the city.  Soon after the Latvian Ethnographic Exhibition in 1896 and the Industrial and Handicrafts Exhibition in 1901, Art Nouveau became the dominant style in the city.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.artnouveau.eu/en/city.php?id=46|title=Art Nouveau European Route: Riga|website=www.artnouveau.eu|access-date=7 July 2019|archive-date=23 July 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200723054317/http://www.artnouveau.eu/en/city.php?id=46|url-status=live}}</ref> Thus Art Nouveau architecture accounts for one-third of all the buildings in the centre of Riga, making it the city with the highest concentration of such buildings anywhere in the world. The quantity and quality of Art Nouveau architecture was among the criteria for including Riga in [[UNESCO World Cultural Heritage]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/852 |title=Historic Centre of Riga |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |publisher=[[UNESCO]] |access-date=11 March 2016 |archive-date=22 June 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200622180500/http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/852/|url-status= live}}</ref>

There were different variations of Art Nouveau architecture in Riga:
* in Eclectic Art Nouveau, floral and other nature-inspired elements of decoration were most popular. Examples of that variation are works of [[Mikhail Eisenstein]],
* in Perpendicular Art Nouveau, geometrical ornaments were integrated into the vertical compositions of the façades. Several department stores were built in this style, and it is sometimes also referred to as "department store style" or {{lang|de|Warenhausstil}} in German,
* National Romantic Art Nouveau was inspired by local folk art, monumental volumes and the use of natural building materials.
Some later [[Neoclassical architecture|Neo-Classical]] buildings also contained Art Nouveau details.